A "special election" means a vacant House seat was filled -- and the winner gets seated immediately.
Winners of the general election will be seated on Jan. 3, 2019.
The new members of Congress listed below are part of the "lame duck" session
-- the period after the election and before the new Congress' inauguration in January.
Some special elections took place before November and some races took some time to count -- inauguration dates listed below.

OnTheIssues disendorsements for candidates who refuse to take issue stances

OnTheIssues condemns candidates with an "IFFY Award" for running an "Issue-Free campaign." These are "iffy" candidates because they refused to provide voters with information on what they believe and how they will legislate. They are likely to be "iffy legislators" too -- never providing their constituents with information, on the belief that the less voters know, the more likely the "iffy" candidates are to get re-elected.

An IFFY award is a non-partisan condemnation: OnTheIssues doesn't care WHAT candidates' issue stances are -- as long as they HAVE issue stances!

At OnTheIssues, we believe that candidates should make clear their issue stances, and if they don't do that, then they should not run for office at all, and if they get elected and still won't divulge their issue stances, that they should resign or be driven from office by outraged constituents. Following are our three "iffy" candidates for 2018:

NBC-10-TV reports that Fung avoided all primary debates:
"The two favorite contenders for the major partyís nominations are refusing to appear in any of the offered statewide forums.
'Itís not OK in a democracy,' NBC 10's political analyst said. 'Avoiding debates might rub voters the wrong way and they might just end up staying home in the general election.' "

During the general election debate, the Providence Journal reported that Fung's independent opponent Joe Trillo brought up the IFFY issue:
"Trillo saved his most colorful exchanges for Fung, whom he called 'wimpy' for not taking positions on issues."

OnTheIssues has been attempting to gather issue stances from Mayor Fung since 2014, when he also ran for Governor (and also provided few issue stances). Mayor Fung has declined to respond to our VoteMatch quiz repeatedly.

KGOU's Trevor Brown reported that the sole one-hour debate on Sept. 24 "waded into social issues,
including abortion, parental rights and gun control. Neither candidate, however, seemed to want to press these issues as campaign focal points."

Edmondson's opponent, however, has made public his stances on those three issues (and more), while Edmondson has not.

OnTheIssues has been attempting to gather issue stances from Edmondson all campaign season. Edmondson has declined to respond to our VoteMatch quiz repeatedly.

Project VoteSmart reprots, "Chele Farley has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you."

The Auburn Citizen commented that "In her campaign launch video... Farley blamed Gillibrand, a Democrat, for the state not getting its fair share from the federal government.... There wasn't much revealed in the video about Farley's platform."

Farley has continued that lack of platform throughout the campaign, running on a platform of Gillibrand's failings.

OnTheIssues has been attempting to gather issue stances from Farley all campaign season. Farley has declined to respond to our VoteMatch quiz repeatedly.

New York Gubernatorial primaries: Thursday, Sept. 13(Democratic incumbent running for re-election)
The New York primary system allows candidates to run on multiple party lines;
Cynthia Nixon lost on the Democratic Party line but won on the Working Families Party line.

Maryland Senatorial primary:(Incumbent Democrat running for re-election but challenged in primary)
Note that this is the 6-year Senate seat; there is also a special election in Mississippi for a 2-year Senate seat
-- that will take place as a jungle primary on Nov. 6 with a runoff afterwards if needed.

Mississippi Senatorial Democratic runoff:(Two top vote-getters advanced from June 5 Democratic primary)
Note that this is the 6-year Senate seat; there is also a special election in Mississippi for a 2-year Senate seat
-- that will take place as a jungle primary on Nov. 6 with a runoff afterwards if needed.

Mississippi Special Senatorial primary:Note: This is the 2-year Senate special election for seat vacated by Thad Cochran.
The three candidates listed will participate in a jungle primary on November 6th, with a runoff (if no candidate gets over 50%) on November 27th.